Gujarat Police Detain 5 Drug Offenders Under PIT NDPS

Gandhinagar | Gujarat — Gujarat Police have intensified their crackdown on narcotics-related crimes, detaining five drug offenders under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988 (PIT NDPS Act), and sending them to different jails across the state.

The detention orders were issued by Director General of Police (DGP-CID Crime), Gujarat State, Shri Dr. K.L.N. Rao.

The action was carried out by the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) and CID Crime units against offenders from Rajkot city, and the districts of Aravalli, Banaskantha, Navsari and Junagadh.

The detained individuals have been identified as Babubhai Ninama (49) from Vankatimba village in Bhiloda taluka (Aravalli), Ishwar alias Hendal Salat (28) from Palanpur (Banaskantha), Manojgiri Goswami (45) from Vansda (Navsari), Wahid Panja (50) from Junagadh, and Imran Belim (32) from Rajkot. All five had previously been arrested under various sections of the NDPS Act but were out on bail.

According to police, the PIT NDPS Act allows preventive detention of individuals to stop them from engaging in the sale, purchase, transport or storage of narcotic substances.

The state government has adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards narcotics-related crimes.

“Just as PASA is invoked against anti-social elements, the PIT NDPS Act is used against habitual narco-offenders,” Gujarat Police said, adding that it remains committed to eliminating the drug menace and making the state ‘Nasha Mukt’ (addiction-free).

In 2025, a total of 86 offenders were detained under the PIT NDPS Act and lodged in different jails across the state. So far this year, 21 narco-offenders have been detained in the past four months as part of the ongoing crackdown.